Brigada Today
15 of May, 1998
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Compiled by Doug Lucas <DLucas@teamexpansion.org>, Louisville, KY
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Well everyone scoured their
archives . . . and if there were any Brigada Today issues prior to Feb.
18th 1995, apparently nobody hung onto them. Even the logs at MAFxc (then
called CrossConnect) indicate Feb. 18th was the first edition. Thanks to all
who tried to help -- and yes, we were trying to find editions from 1995, not
the current year. Sorry I didn't specify! 
It was hard to believe the number of encouraging notes that came in after last week's
soccer story item, "SPECIAL EDITORIAL: DOES IT EVER "JUST HAPPEN???"
Yikes 
-- sounds like there are MANY people around the world who are chipping
away at giant tasks... getting very little credit, but serving a grand and
global God! Thanks for the encouragement, gang -- but those determined souls
who are showing step-by-step determination are the ones who deserve the
credit... along with Jesus who sees them through!! Why not pick out one of
THEM to write this week instead of me! 
Have you visited http://www.scruples.org ??? Wow! 
Talk about a page! This site has something for everyone . . . especially
tentmakers. Dozens of links . . . and lots of annotated content. Some classy
stuff. For example, there's the Scruples Business and Missions Page at http://www.scruples.org/bizetmiz/ which is apparently a ministry of YWAM,
British Columbia. Top notch stuff. Okay - so
maybe the challenge isn't THAT great. But Craig would love to know
everything you know. He's promised to fill us in here with a compilation in
a couple of weeks. He writes, "On May 29 we are having our first Missions
seminar for our movement here and I was wondering if you have a report on
the current stats of the world Christian movement that I could use for a
presentation on the movement's growth and what God is doing in the world
today. Anything you have would be a great help." Email Craig at tasker@online.ee in Estonia. You could send him graphs, charts, references
to URLs, emailed text, etc. He'll compile it and make it available to all of
us. Thanks! A reader wrote this past week to point out a criticism of a site we had recently recommended in Brigada Today. In the process, I realized that we probably haven't said enough
about the fact that there's no way we can possibly "screen" each portion of
the web sites we sometimes recommend. So... a new line has been added in our
"closing" -- stating that the opinions expressed in a recommended site
aren't necessarily those of the Editor. But maybe you already knew that. 
Although the Internet has yet to be proven
as an effective means of evangelism, it has nevertheless become an
indispensable tool for missionaries and those who support them. Through the
work of MAF and others, nearly every mission worker, no matter how remote,
is able to use e-mail to communicate quickly and easily with the rest of
the world. Despite its bad reputation from pornography, many in the
missions community believe that the Internet and the WWW are a wonderful
gift from God, especially because of the ways He has used them to unite
diverse believers from around the world in true collaborative partnership. THE GOSPEL FOR EVERY PEOPLE -- Pray for Cairo; the Kalmyks of Russia; the Cham of Vietnam and Cambodia; openness and resistance in Togo; rebel defections in Cambodia; the Western Punjabis of Pakistan; Celebrate Messiah 2000
THE PERSECUTED CHURCH -- Punjab court sentences Ayub Masih to death; two Colombians poisoned; Myanmar troops attack Karen refugee camps; Pakistani believer despairs of getting kidnapped daughter back; Peruvian believer unjustly accused; Rashid Turibayev serving two-year prison sentence; American witness stabbed to death in Bihar; Swedish missionaries remain in captivity; students at Islamic university make decisions for Christ
SPIRITUAL FORCES OF DARKNESS -- Buddhists pay homage to Buddha's tooth; Asia economic problems drive people to suicide; Vietnam has world's highest abortion rate; racist groups in USA grow 20%; medical technician charged with injecting HIV-infected blood into infant son
REJOICE! -- 30,500 decisions for Christ in Egypt; Kumbh Mela festival flops; three grandmothers unexpectedly released from jail; new believer returns to Muslim homeland; death row inmate leads 42 other inmates to Christ; destroyed Sudan church building rallies congregation, neighbors; opportunities for the gospel in Iraq; Cambodia government approves Christian radio station; Danish police crack international child pornography ring
NETWORKING -- 30 Days of Prayer for Hindus; 50 most unreached people groups of China and Tibet; Celebrate Messiah 2000; Jesus film available on Internet; resources for teaching missions to preschoolers, older children and teens; community banking program helps impoverished families support themselves; India missions website; new video series on unreached people groups; Praying Through the Window IV: "Light the Window;" prayer teams for Tibet
Thanks Mark!
Back in
the early days (early '95), life just didn't seem to be so hectic... and for
some reason, we could always get it out Friday morning. When sending dates
began to fluctuate some, one reader suggested we always use the same DAY of
the week as a sending date... and so far, we've eventually gotten out a
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